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Confirmatory Order, I&M agrees to 

implement a periodic assessment of its 

compliance with its work hour 

limitations program and evaluate the 

results of the assessment for trends. 

6. In the event of the transfer of the 

operating license of D.C. Cook plant to 

another entity, the actions as required 

by this Confirmatory Order shall 

continue to apply to the D.C. Cook plant 

and accordingly survive any transfer of 

ownership or license. 

7. The NRC understands that I&M has 

appealed the ARB decision to the 

United States Court of Appeals for the 

Sixth Circuit. The outcome of that 

appeal will not alter I&M’s actions set 

forth herein or the provisions of this 

Confirmatory Order. 

The Director, Office of Enforcement, 

may, in writing, relax or rescind any of 

the above conditions upon 

demonstration by the Licensee of good 

cause. 

VI 

Any person adversely affected by this 

Confirmatory Order, other than the 

Licensee, may request a hearing within 

20 days of its issuance. Where good 

cause is shown, consideration will be 

given to extending the time to request a 

hearing. A request for extension of time 

must be made in writing to the Director, 

Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC. 20555, and include a statement of 

good cause for the extension. Any 

request for a hearing shall be submitted 

to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Chief, 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, 

Washington, DC. 20555–0001. Copies of 

the hearing request shall also be sent to 

the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC. 20555–0001, to the 

Assistant General Counsel for Materials 

Litigation and Enforcement at the same 

address, to the Regional Administrator, 

NRC Region III, 2443 Warrenville Road, 

Suite 210, Lisle, IL 60532–4352, and to 

the Licensee. Because of potential 

disruptions in delivery of mail to United 

States Government offices, it is 

requested that requests for hearing be 

transmitted to the Secretary of the 

Commission either by means of 

facsimile transmission to 301–415–1101 

or by e-mail to hearingdocket@nrc.gov 

and also to the Office of the General 

Counsel either by means of facsimile 

transmission to 301–415–3725 or by email to OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. If a 

person other than the licensee requests 

a hearing, that person shall set forth 

with particularity the manner in which 

his interest is adversely affected by this 

Confirmatory Order and shall address 

the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) 

and (f). 

If the hearing is requested by a person 

whose interest is adversely affected, the 

Commission will issue an order 

designating the time and place of any 

hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to 

be considered at such hearing shall be 

whether this Confirmatory Order should 

be sustained. 

In the absence of any request for 

hearing, or written approval of an 

extension of time in which to request a 

hearing, the provisions specified in 

Section V shall be final 20 days from the 

date of this Confirmatory Order without 

further order or proceedings. If an 

extension of times for requesting a 

hearing has been approved, the 

provisions specified in Section V shall 

be final when the extension expires if a 

hearing request has not been received. A 

request for hearing shall not stay the 

immediate effectiveness of this order. 

Dated this 4th day of April, 2007. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Cynthia A. Carpenter, 

Director, Office of Enforcement. 

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[Docket No. 040–08778] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Molycorp, Inc.’s 

Facility in Washington, PA 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Webb, Project Manager, 

Decommissioning and Uranium 

Recovery Licensing Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; 

Telephone: (301) 415–6252; fax number: 

(301) 415–5398; e-mail: jxw2@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of a 

license amendment to Molycorp, Inc. 

(Molycorp or licensee) for Materials 

License No. SMB–1393, to authorize an 

alternate decommissioning schedule for 

its facility in Washington, Pennsylvania. 

NRC has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) in support of this 

action in accordance with the 

requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. Based 

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate. The amendment 

will be issued following the publication 

of this Notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of this proposed action 

is to allow the licensee to decommission 

its facility in a phased approach which 

will take longer than the two year 

period identified in the approved 

decommissioning plan (DP). Following 

an extensive supplemental 

characterization study, Molycorp found 

that there is a large volume of 

contaminated material in the 

subsurface. Molycorp will excavate the 

contaminated soils and transport them 

off-site to an NRC approved facility. 

Molycorp’s proposed alternate 

decommissioning schedule shows that 

all decommissioning activities will be 

completed by the end of 2008. 

Molycorp’s request is contained in a 

letter to NRC dated October 11, 2006. 

An earlier, and more extensive, EA 

was prepared for License Amendment 

No. 5, in support of the NRC staff 

evaluation of Molycorp’s final DP. The 

NRC staff determined that all steps in 

the proposed decommissioning could be 

accomplished in compliance with the 

NRC public and occupational dose 

limits, effluent release limits, and 

residual radioactive material limits. In 

addition, the staff concluded that 

approval of the decommissioning of the 

Molycorp Washington, PA, facility in 

accordance with the commitments in 

NRC license SMB–1393 and the final DP 

would not result in a significant adverse 

impact on the environment. The 

proposed action does not change the 

impacts analyzed in detail in the EA 

prepared for License Amendment No. 5. 

If the NRC approves the license 

amendment, the authorization will be 

documented in an amendment to NRC 

License No. SMB–1393. However, 

before approving the proposed 

amendment, the NRC will need to make 

the findings required by the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and 

NRC’s regulations. These findings will 

be documented in a Safety Evaluation 

Report in addition to the EA. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The staff has prepared the EA 

(summarized above) in support of 

Molycorp’s proposed alternate 

decommissioning schedule. The NRC 

staff has concluded that there will be no 

adverse environmental impacts 

associated with granting Molycorp an 


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alternate decommissioning schedule. 

The impacts associated with this 

proposed action do not differ 

significantly from the impacts evaluated 

in the EA for approval of the DP in 

License Amendment No. 5. On the basis 

of the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

the environmental impacts from the 

action are expected to be insignificant 

and has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

action. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agency-wide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

number for the documents related to 

this notice are: Molycorp’s letter to NRC 

dated October 11, 2006, ML062970401; 

EA prepared for License Amendment 

No. 5, ML003735909; EA prepared for 

this action, ML070250014; Molycorp’s 

final DP, ML010540178; Federal 

Register Notice for Amendment No. 8, 

ML050030165. If you do not have access 

to ADAMS or if there are problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 

Document Room Reference staff at 1–

800–397–4209, (301) 415–4737, or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Any questions should be referred to 

James Webb, Division of Waste 

Management and Environmental 

Protection, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington DC 20555, 

Mailstop T–7E18, telephone (301) 415–

6252, fax (301) 415–5397. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of April, 2007. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

Keith I. McConnell, 

Deputy Director, Decommissioning and 

Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Federal 

and State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs. 

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[Docket No. PROJ0735] 

Public Meeting To Discuss Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission Roles and 

Responsibilities for Department of 

Energy Waste Determination Activities 

at the Idaho National Laboratory; 

Notice of Public Meeting in Idaho Falls, 

ID 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

DATES: April 25, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Xiaosong Yin, Project Manager, 

Environmental Protection and 

Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: (301) 415–7640; fax number: 

(301) 415–5397; e-mail: XXY@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Introduction 

The Ronald Reagan National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 

(NDAA) authorizes the U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE), in consultation with 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC), to determine whether certain 

radioactive waste related to the 

reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel is not 

high-level waste, provided certain 

criteria are met. The NDAA also 

requires NRC to monitor DOE disposal 

actions to assess compliance with 10 

CFR Part 61, Subpart C, performance 

objectives for low-level waste. 

On September 7, 2005, DOE 

submitted a draft waste determination 

for residual waste incidental to 

reprocessing, including sodium bearing 

waste, stored in the Idaho Nuclear 

Technology and Engineering Center 

(INTEC) Tank Farm Facility (TFF) to 

demonstrate compliance with the 

NDAA criteria including demonstration 

of compliance with the performance 

objectives in 10 CFR Part 61, Subpart C. 

In its consultation role, the NRC staff 

reviewed the draft waste determination 

and concluded that the NDAA criteria 

could be met for residual waste stored 

in the INTEC TFF. NRC documented the 

results of its review in a technical 

evaluation report (TER) issued in 

October 2006. DOE issued a final waste 

determination in November 2006 taking 

into consideration the assumptions, 

conclusions, and recommendations 

documented in NRC’s TER 

(ML062490142). 

To better inform the public on the 

NRC’s activities under the NDAA, NRC 

is holding this public meeting in Idaho 

Falls, Idaho to provide the public with 

a clear understanding of NRC’s activities 

on the implementation of the NDAA 

and the review of DOE’s waste 

determination for the INTEC TFF. The 

NRC staff will also provide an overview 

of its planned monitoring activities. 

2. Meeting Time and Location 

The NRC will hold this public 

meeting on April 25, 2007, at Red Lion 

Hotels, 475 River Parkway, Idaho Falls, 

Idaho. 

3. Meeting Agenda 

6:30 p.m.–7 p.m.: Meeting 

participants registration. 

7 p.m.–7:10 p.m.: The NRC staff will 

make opening remarks regarding the 

conduct of today’s sessions. 

7:10 p.m.–7:30 p.m.: The NRC staff 

will provide an overview of NRC’s 

implementation of the Ronald Reagan 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

FY 2005, Section 3116. 

7:30 p.m.–7:45 p.m.: Open questions 

and answers from all participants. 

7:45 p.m.–8 p.m.: The NRC staff will 

provide an overview on NRC’s technical 

review of DOE’s Draft Determination for 

the Tank Farm Facility at the Idaho 

National Laboratory. 

8 p.m.–8:15 p.m.: The NRC staff will 

provide an overview of NRC planned 

monitoring activities for the Tank Farm 

Facility at the Idaho National 

Laboratory. 

8:15 p.m.–9 p.m.: Open questions and 

answers from all participants. 

9 p.m.: Adjourn. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of April, 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Scott Flanders, 

Deputy Director, Environmental Protection 

and Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection. Office of Federal 

and State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs. 

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Summary: In accordance with the 

requirement of Section 3506 (c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

which provides opportunity for public 

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